What’s In Your Medical Marijuana Activist Legal Toolbox?

Get the tools you need to be an effective organizer, talk to the media, lobby elected officials, and navigate the legal system. You can read and download all of these handbooks and manuals online any time, or order printed copies from Americans for Safe Access. Get educated and share them with your friends and loved ones!

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ASA Organizers Handbook: The ASA Organizer¹s Handbook is a basic introduction to the organization, its values, and its goals. It also contains step-by-step instructions for organizing an ASA Chapter and holding meetings. The handbook explains basic organizing skills, like event planning, public speaking, and communicating effectively. This tool is especially useful in facilitating outreach and saving staff time. http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/OrganizingHandbook

ASA Media Manual: Local and national media coverage is an important part of informing communities, opinion leaders, and potential allies about cannabis therapeutics and the challenges that patients, providers, researchers and doctors face. Patients and advocates must often take the news to print, broadcast, and online media outlets to be sure our voices are heard. It is important that we shape how news about medical cannabis is reported ­ and how it is received by the public-at-large. Activists can use the tools in this manual to find appropriate media, craft your message to be more effective, and avoid common pitfalls that prevent you from communicating the message that will support our goals.

ABCs Guide to Court Support Marijuana is not just medicine in states that have Medical Marijuana laws. Medical marijuana patients are getting arrested, going to trial, and going to jail all over the country. As advocates, it is our job to highlight these injustices both in state and federal courts. www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/ <http://www.safeaccessnow.org/article.php?id=1296>

CourtSupport ASA Legal Manual (2005) This exhaustive legal manual gives you the nuts and bolts of medical marijuana law in California: becoming a patient and caregiver, legal defense, and organizing for successful court solidarity among other useful items. http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/LegalManual

— Other Resources for Organizers http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/Resources You can buy printed versions of this literature on our Internet web site in the new ASA Online Store. Check out the ³Activist Pack² in the Educational Literature section:

Legal to see instructions for defending a medical cannabis patient, filing a return of property motion, or dealing with other legal issues. Americans for Safe Access is the nation¹s largest organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research. We need your support to keep doing our work. Join ASA today! http://www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org/Donate

Thanks for participating! Don Duncan Southern California Coordinator Americans for Safe Access www.AmericansForSafeAccess.org <http://www.americansforsafeaccess.org/> Americans for Safe Access (ASA) is the largest national member-based organization of patients, medical professionals, scientists and concerned citizens promoting safe and legal access to cannabis for therapeutic use and research.